we. we want to present. something. nations supporting syria's revolutionaries in turkey to fresh plans to help the opposition supporters of bashar assad protesting against the talks are dispersed by turkish police. also in this week's top stories a hot mike exchange between barack obama and dmitri medvedev leads to anti russian rhetoric among america's republican presidential candidates a trend of moscow's condemned as cold war hollywood cliché. and spain as tough as budget cuts in decades despite a nationwide strike or mass protest that resulted in violent clashes with police and dozens of arrests. plus one of the street demos some muscovites launch their own protest against the portal the market anti rallies rally in the center of the

russian capital. with a look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly. saudi arabia and its allies are thought to agree to pay salaries to rebels fighting the syrian regime the decision comes around sixty nations all harsh critics of the syrian government met in turkey to discuss how to bolster the opposition and intensify sanctions against president assad but how is blameless advance whereas damascus says it is fighting extremists. is been following the talks in istanbul. final statement saying that the friends of syria against be providing all possible assistance to the syrian opposition that's a technical assistance and direct assistance still there is going to be some sort

of multi million dollar fund that possibly will be used to then provide salaries to the syrian army to thank this and to the free syrian army as well we know a number of the gulf states have already pledged large amounts of money. outside the conference and today we actually saw a small gathering but for a government that the space is clashing with the turkish riot police all seemed a little bit unnecessary to be perfectly honest as these we. find out what's going on there in the turkish riot police far outnumber the amounts of the pro-government demonstrators cecil's and sort of scale sixteen's break out fight that conference the friends of syria that we've already coming on so many christmases and stress both the. government. and also the opposition as well he really they feel that they represent all that the party that they're supporting the syrian national council represents all the syrian people from russia and china absent from the course

conference the criticisms that have come. and have been this is very one sided and that there are concerns that the exclusion of the government of the syrian government really. rather than helps the diplomatic efforts that are going on at the same time to resolve this crisis professor graham aleutian of certainly a university and believes that some gulf nations spearheading the and your campaign . position to do so. the record of the so there have been regime as probably with probably one of the worst in the region and they start talking about freedom and human rights and syria or libya just this this is just so preposterous that so their radio would have the nerve to to speak had allegedly against the human rights violations and in syria and what have you or you do not house political parties and so there may be good enough house elections and so that rabia and certainly you do

not have a rotation of power and everything is decided that by a small clique of royals who appropriate the wealth of the country which which contains some of the richest oil deposits in the world the bottom line as sudha arabia is pursuing a policy of opposing regimes that end the pandan from the west and this is the common theme between iraq libya and and syria right now. one hundred fifty killed more than four hundred injured the result of clashes in libya in the past six days alone as former rebels and tribes battle it out for power the nation's government has now broken a ceasefire but in reality it has little or over the last number of troops left over from the revolution it is former prime minister who led the uprising against moammar gadhafi believes there's a risk libya might be taken over by extremists mahmoud jibril also says it's the

result of nato abandoning the country after the former regime was toppled one of the next exclusive interview with sharing his view on gadhafi staff as well as the future of libya. it's a tool many of his who have interests that he doesn't talk that he should be silenced for of or for that he was killed by a foreign entity or killed by libyans or libyans and we have from others after that . most of the country has felt that their mission has been accomplished they neglect the fact that the. political vacuum can be felt by anybody in the world and it's. you know. and you can watch out for an interview with in a little over an hour here on t.v. . guarantees or an arms race prism inventive delivered

a clear choice to washington this week over its missile shield plans in europe as the u.s. also announced similar systems for asia and the middle east that need to be avoided and barack obama discussed the issue at an international nuclear security summit in seoul and part of their private conversation accidentally went public. the two leaders exchange was captured by t.v. cameras word for word and it was seized on by the iraqi government's republican rivals with mitt romney even declaring russia as america's number one enemy because more hawks land on the anti russian bandwagon or he's going to check on reports there was a price i'm not resonating with american voters in. the run up to the presidential election in the u.s. . a perfect time to drag out the good old cold war skeleton from the closet.

russia this is without question our number one geopolitical foe in the world of the presidential hopeful mitt romney russia is america's prime enemy while its president elect you should read every snap of pleasure. i think as it represents a real threat to the. ability and peace of the world but that's in the world of mitt romney what about well america there is no evidence of any popular support for bashing russia for hostility towards russia so this idea that somehow or another russia is a concern for americans it just doesn't add up at all with a very small sliver of people asked about romney's comments president medvedev advised him to stop reverting to olden days hollywood steered types and take

a look at the calendar. and you can but i would advise all u.s. presidential candidates to make reasonable statements if you didn't do them any harm to do so they will choose it's the year twenty twelve midnight and seventy's and the current leaders of the two countries may have long delayed the cold war to aggress but for some it's just too good to like boy to return to those cold war simple days. russia is not the only for. policy bandwagon the republican presidential hopefuls are capitalizing on the list also includes china iran syria each candidate except ron paul trying to sound tougher than the other the strategies they put forward by arming arming isolating threatening i want to beat china i want to go to war with china these guys are ranchers and and and and and looking for ways to do. it to want to harm us of course should take military

action it is unacceptable for iran to have a nuclear weapon but what if all of what the trigger happy candidates suggest on foreign policy actually happens i worry about the world in which romney became president because i think he would adopt a more militaristic foreign policy as world is depicted in the picture sketch it's some kind of if it cool and very kind of real view of the world if america takes up a much more aggressive stance towards lots of foreign countries it will be a much more dangerous world they'll also be dangerous for america because we can't afford to do that mitt romney will most likely win the republican nomination and america will face a choice between him and president obama polls show the majority of americans disapprove of obama's policies but most experts agree that we will eventually win the election because too many americans are just plain scared of having someone

like romney as their future leader i'm going to strike our reporting. party. as us republicans take a hardline stance on foreign nations presidential hopefuls in france are coming down hard on domestic issues and still ahead in the sound off in the wake of radical islamic terrorism on home soil candidates push constitutional change with threats of arrests and deportation. and also north korea accuses the u.s. of overreacting as a standoff over a planned satellites. intensifies. stories to come but some of the biggest riots in decades swept across spain this week mass rallies backed a nationwide general strike as millions walked off the job to protest against more sturdy dozens of people were injured in the shooting clashes sixty arrested by police the government remain unborn announcing twenty seven billion euros worth of cuts the very next day the toughest budget strains introduced in decades which

includes tax hikes and a salary freeze for public sector workers economic analyst michael lost things that ultimately the measures will not work. if you haven't heard of a politician who was promises came true overcame we are latina future me not and what i can see is that what his brain want to make this government is not only deserted his pale it's also impossible when you look at the private sector private sector is totally over debt more or less bankrupt when you look at the banks over there banquet central bank bankrupt government all some honest bankrupt how can you implement an authority package in this circumstances so everybody will see it is will this won't work i got i what i see is that spain is the last nail in the euro zone coffin when politicians are talking about adjustment adjustment is such a nice word what it means in reality that people there have to become poorer when

you are a government and you have to tell it to the people the people are feeling that they are becoming poorer you are in a big big difficulty this could easily lead to a domestic interaction and this would could also trigger more problems in the other southern countries here in europe. in addition to the deep in debt crisis in the e.u. there are also growing concerns over soaring oil prices following the west's sanctions against iran france britain and the us are considering releasing oil reserves into the market to drive down crude costs from the national iranian american council believes that sanctions were just a knee jerk reaction with the repercussions are only being felt now the real problem here is that the us and the e.u. have passed these unprecedented sanctions without a real strategy or understanding of what comes next we're sort of making this up as we go along and we're finding that the stations that we put in place to try to

restrict iran from profiting off of oil sales is really actually backfiring on us and that iran has tremendous leverage against us if we're going to take this confrontation to one. to energy so i'm skeptical of the ability of the united states and france and others to actually mitigate this the fear of a war with iran has actually added about twenty dollars to the price of a barrel of oil so this concern that israel may strike iran or that the united states may end up in a war with iran is one of the driving factors of why it's so expensive and simply addressing the supply issue is not going to mitigate that. french police colonel a series of raids against suspected islamic terrorists from a country on friday arresting nineteen people the crackdown comes just a week off of one hundred men a frenchman of algerian descent was shot dead by police and to lose after he murdered seven people so at least has a similar explains a fear of terrorism is playing

a role in the nation's presidential race. momma never was killed by police after thirty two hours seizure and to lose his life may have ended that day but his story has given france's presidential hopefuls an excuse for electioneering with ever more radical rhetoric. that's given rise to a huge political debate and what's made it to the foreground of the discourse is mary background she need from now on anyone who regularly consults internet sites which promote or patriot or violence will be sentenced to prison any person going abroad for the purposes of indoctrination in terrorist ideology will be criminally punished so that's in addition to psychosis policy of stripping a foreign born criminals of their citizenship for their tightening border control saying there are too many foreigners in france the clearly advocating the political change and it's from his view it's not

a crime we have freedom of speech in france and they don't see. restricted. was a french citizen any east family came to france a very long time ago so. obviously this guy end of terrorism. from inside from society it's not just something that is imported from. and you cannot. take away french nationality from the french nationals this is not . the french version and then there's marine le pen the far right national front party candidate having long pushed a more radical anti immigration line call for the revival of the death penalty for child killers and the deportation of any foreigner who goes under suspicious trip to places like afghanistan how many mohamed merah are that in the boats and planes that they arrive in france full of immigrants mohammed merah is perhaps only the

tip of the iceberg it's time to brief you on this from the mentalist political religious groups who are killing our children the threat of islamic fundamentalism has been underestimated. i think although it's been announced after these tragic events are proposals put forward soley for the elections it goes to the one who proposes the most radical solutions which would aim supposedly at solving the problem but the problem is much deeper with all of the growing number of immigrants in france about six million of whom are muslims is being labeled as a problem by some prominent figures politicians are throwing around what they call solutions but the question is whether any of these policy ideas on immigration or security are realistic that are addressing an actual problem or simply the consequences of something more fundamental the core of the problem is for be difficult to recruit because what is the goal of all the people and there doesn't seem to be much consensus on that either does or sylvia r.t.

paris. on a website r.t. dot com we want to know what you think about the french crackdown on domestic. screen now we can see that war the whole family believe its president sarkozy's pre-election move to power to vote is really one fourth think it's the start of an anti muslim witch hunt less than ten percent say it's a kneejerk response to the two new shootings while twelve percent believe it's an attempt to finally address the threat of. no reason on the french. to have your say on all to come from. in recent months russia's witnessed all kinds of rallies from protests against the parliamentary and presidential election results to those in support of the authorities but this sunday a whole new talk of demonstrations taking place in english go with them on to

protest against protests they're angry tired cold hungry and they are mostly journalists who have spent the last goodness knows how many weekends covering the protests in moscow and whether or not they want it's one like other protesters and they couldn't just say no he had to be there they have to spend hours in the freezing weather and we had to listen to the sounds of people who had been basically saying down with everything there is so they organized a facebook initiative group and they got more than a hundred people in just under twenty four hours. to come to a spot in moscow and protest the protest understanding that hungry journalist is something you never want to deal with the broad kuki is the broad flower seeds and it didn't last very long because you know journalists do have families and that was one of the main slogans at the rally be with how they want to see them as much as possible and they do not want to be outside again in the cold and snow listening to people voicing their concerns about something which they cannot really define that

was their main point of the rally which ran down in moscow today and honestly i'm also kind of tired of it too so let's wrap it up and i'm going to head home and do what i wanted to do all these weekends i have a lot of things to catch up on as do they. you a lot see life in moscow still have you the demonstration of that israeli security forces killed a twenty year old palestinian when thousands took to the streets tomorrow monday look at how the protest turned fatal. on the private property is pleading britain's health service dry u.k. lawmakers voted for reforms paving the way for firms to make millions from medical care. those stories don't come to first pyongyang has criticized the u.s. every decision to suspend food aid to north korea calling it an overreaction be on limit provisions were promised in return for the communist stopping nuclear and missile sites test sites north korea was refused to hold back its plans to launch

a satellite image april and has reportedly invited outside experts to prove it is doing it for purely peaceful purposes however the u.s. and south korea believe the launch is really a long range missile test or it's iraq and co-founder of the campaign to end the korean war says washington is acting against international law by involving food aid in its political standoff. just a week or two before we heard the administration in washington say this was a good deal it was going to get food to the neediest people in north korea and now we're playing politics with food food as a weapon of war under international law has always been illegal to use and we really need to find a way back to the table not see individual acts as a provocation they certainly have a right to put a satellite into space as other nations do but let's demilitarized let's look at the base issues let's look at getting

a peace treaty to end the korean war finally and then i think these kinds of issues want to arrive. twenty year old palestinian was killed when the protesters clashed with israeli security forces on the palestinian israeli border on friday becomes a fortnight after an egyptian related truce to stop the violence between the two sides as broken. marriage brings and this year the annual land day demonstrations turned violent with one protester killed in gaza several dozen injured across the west bank and at least thirty four people arrested the event in marks the killing back in one thousand nine hundred six of the six palestinians including a man confiscation policy of the then israeli government palestinians complain that the israelis took arab land and used it for building israeli settlements and since then this any event has been used to highlight the plight of the palestinian people this year it coincided with what was dubbed the global march to jerusalem and its

all some eighty two countries participating the attention was focused on numerous palestinian cities and villages as well as arab israeli towns and israeli borders along the israel damien border some twenty thousand people gathered and while there were no reports of violence the blame certainly highlighted the palestinian struggle. remember you can always log on to our website altie dot com it's online all the time for lots of other stories news and comment for example millions across the world switch the lights on earth hour the of endangered raising global environmental awareness for the most spectacular pictures on our web sites. plus correctness or craziness new york times over fifty words from school essays with dinosaurs dancing and birthday making the black list to see that list unfold log on to watty dot com. well before health begins britain's government this week off to the parliament voted in favor of controversial medical

care reforms when the lawmakers who voted yes have links to private supplies which stand to benefit the doctors and patients fearing for the future of free health care in the u.k. or smith has more on the system and needed to check out. but the merry go round of self interest along for the rise members of parliament the house of lords and health care companies opening up for today's national health service to plumbed profit is the jewel in the u.k.'s welfare state is under strain promising free health care but with criticism that it can't cope the government says private sector involvement is the only but some say it's not those in need of care but rather those in power who are set to benefit. the shares in the company and yet they with these vested interests are allowed to vote on the health and social care bill with these private health care interests

which is a conflict of interest. institutional corruption at worst friends with benefits david cameron prime minister received two hundred ten thousand pounds to his party for nothing and care home tycoon pop out and made him a lot part of the party twenty five thousand pounds just a week after the health reforms were announced andrew lansley health secretary got twenty one thousand pounds to fund his office from john nash who is the chairman of k u k which already gets ninety six percent of its business from the n.h.s. the list is long and illustrious it runs to nearly one hundred fifty names all lords and m.p.'s who voted yes to opening up health care to competition and stand to gain from the results there may be more the research isn't finished yet and now

that the bill has passed its detractors are powerless to stop private companies stepping in and making health care about profits not healing investigation show a number of westminster m.p.'s who are britain's house of lords have links with private health care provider. as through investments patronage membership and the parties in power conservatives and liberal democrats have received substantial funding from various private health interests following the legislation those companies are circling already starting to see a number of private health interests starting to look very seriously cherry picking some of the best most profitable parts of the national health service they were just waiting for this legislation to go through parliament and of course now ready to pounce the changes have been highly controversial and these people think they'll damage the quality of care many feel the m.p.'s did declare their interests they should have been banned from local government code of conduct as anybody with an

interest must never take part in this decision to fix their interest issues told were driven it's to do with private enterprise use. profit says not to do with. inside westminster m.p.'s reportedly banned the table in jubilation when the reforms passed outside the bell tolls the free health care. london. i'll be back with a recap of this week's had main headlines for you in just a few minutes this is all to life here in moscow.

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